Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for this reason that all the superpowers have effectively conspired to exclude nuclear weapons from the ambit of the laws of war . |
| 2 | Managers and clinicians had rather come to view each other as protagonists in the constant battle for resources . |
| 3 | We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit . |
| 4 | America has attacked the bit of the Bank expressly designed to promote private enterprise in the developing countries . |
| 5 | Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner . |
| 6 | Although beaten in the semi-finals in the Masters of the French satellite , Britain 's Chris Bailey collected enough points to climb 70 places to 226 in the new ATP/IBM world rankings . |
| 7 | Equally it is often used to explain why national leaders are better placed to mobilize collective effort in the national interest such as in the response to the second oil crisis in 1979 . |
| 8 | By use of a computer-generated list of codes , 400 9-month-olds and 406 6-month-olds were randomly assigned to receive one dose of IPV or OPV ( 6-month-old children also received Edmonston-Zagreb measles vaccine ; results have been reported elsewhere ) . |
| 9 | I only mean to preface this discussion of cultural difference with an awkward question : in the world we have , is it possible for us — any of us — not to have at least some inferior others ? |
| 10 | With a 10 year operational life , the new reprocessing plant is only intended to handle 6000 tonnes of spent fuel — two thirds of which may come from overseas . |
| 11 | The churches reflect the piety and religious sentiment of the citizens in an age which naturally sought to express civic feeling in religious form . |
| 12 | Apart from the assumed humanitarian philosophies of most US politicians and citizens , nothing is better designed to drive poor countries into the arms of the communists than shortages of food . |
| 13 | In separate declarations on Nov. 12 Serbia , Albania and Bulgaria expressed support for a Greek initiative to guarantee the existing borders of Macedonia , apparently designed to allay international concern about Greece 's intentions towards the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 14 | I had long wished to bring National Service to an end . |
| 15 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 16 | Golding only has to describe young people without their layer of parent 's laws , he does n't have to make up anything . |
| 17 | ‘ One only has to draw this line of argument to its logical conclusion to see the dangers of it . ’ |
| 18 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 19 | However , the public rightly expect to have particular assurance about standards of safety in the nuclear industry ’ . |
| 20 | Short , fashionably cut brown hair only seemed to give added emphasis to her thin features , deepening the shadows beneath her eyes . |
| 21 | First , we need to have more control and accountability for our clinical practice ; second we need to further develop our analytical skills to make us more confident and effective members of the multidisciplinary team , and third , by appreciating the managerial themes in our work we should be better equipped to establish constructive dialogues with our managers who may now be non-nurses . |
| 22 | ‘ The programme enables pupils to gain practical experience of the world of work , ’ she said ‘ and we hope that they return to school more confident and mature and better equipped to make informed decisions about their future . ’ |
| 23 | If you are only going to take one form of supplement then desiccated liver should be your choice . |
| 24 | Playing Richard is so bound up with physical attitude , and I think that as actors we are not well enough equipped to meet that kind of physical thinking in that kind of role . |
| 25 | The operator is only used to give special service to customers and to connect incoming calls , while the extensions have the convenience and speed of dialling their own calls . |
| 26 | When we take somebody , assess their needs and offer them a care package , in terms of the elderly , erm , and more importantly in terms of those with physical disability or learning disability , we have basically got to support that person for the rest of their life , and therefore , the commitment is not just for the current year , the commitment in , in the case of the elderly depending on what is being offered , whether it be nursing home care , or residential care is for several months or years . |
| 27 | After meetings with A&M Records and the band 's management , we realized Radio I was n't necessarily going to welcome this band with open arms . |
| 28 | Such a system will be highly resistant to the effects of damage to individual modules and will only begin to show marked alterations in function when a large proportion of the modules has been damaged . |
| 29 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 30 | Disordered hair is constantly used to reflect social chaos by the police and is a prime signifier of everything that is offensive to the world of ‘ real polising ’ . |